Saint Teresa - New Orleans, LA
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The statue of Saint Teresa is located near the southeast entrance of Saint-Louis Cemetery No. 3 on Avenue Esplanade in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Waymark Code: WM127XW
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 03/23/2020
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Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), commonly known as Mother Teresa and honoured in the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje (now the capital of North Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in North Macedonia for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life.
In 1950, Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation that had over 4,500 nuns and was active in 133 countries in 2012. The congregation manages homes for people who are dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis.
She was beatified on 19 October 2003 by Pope John Paul II and canonized by Pope Francis on 4 September 2016. (
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The lifesize bronze statue of Mother Teresa with her quote : “If you pray, you will have faith. And if you have faith, you will love. And if you love, you will serve. And if you serve, you will have peace”, was added to the cemetery in 2000.